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Forge or smithy in Carnaross

Forge/smithy
Forge or smithy in Carnaross
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What is recorded here

Detached gable-fronted single-storey forge, built 1871, now disused. Limestone walls with rock-faced quoins and voussoirs. Pitched slate roof. Horseshoe-shaped opening with battened timber door. Paired cast-iron windows with central timber mullion and stone sill.
The horseshoe-shaped entrance was a feature commonly used in the nineteenth century to denote a building's use as a blacksmith's forge. It gives this modest industrial structure a certain architectural distinctiveness. The survival of some original external features and materials adds to the significance of the building. The date '1871' inscribed on a carved plaque above the entrance.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14307004

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • RonanMcCormick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
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